Process Quality Engineer
Philips · Alajuela
Job description
About the role
Plays a key role in driving manufacturing excellence by ensuring high‑quality performance, regulatory compliance, and continuous process improvement across factory operations. Partnering closely with production teams and suppliers, this role supports quality investigations, change management, non‑conformance resolution, performance monitoring, and CAPA implementation to enhance product quality, strengthen process controls, and support operational success.
Key responsibilities
- Drive the management of Non‑Conformances (NCs), Quality Notifications (QNs), and CAPA activities, analyzing defects, implementing corrective actions, and ensuring effective resolution of quality issues.
- Support risk assessments, PFMEA updates, design changes, manufacturing process development, and design transfer activities to maintain robust process controls and product quality.
- Monitor factory quality performance and compliance, leveraging data analysis, statistical techniques, supplier quality collaboration, and continuous improvement initiatives to optimize operations.
- Coordinate quality engineering and quality assurance activities, maintain manufacturing quality systems, and support successful New Product Introductions (NPI) and product transfer projects.
- Partner with suppliers, R&D, and manufacturing teams to investigate complex quality issues, drive process validation and improvement initiatives, and communicate key quality metrics, trends, and compliance results to stakeholders.
Required profile
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Science, or a related field; vocational education also accepted.
- 2+ years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or a minimum of 4 years of experience in Quality Engineering, Process Engineering, Safety Engineering, or a related field with vocational education.
- Strong understanding of quality engineering principles, including Process Quality Management, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), CAPA methodologies, process monitoring, and regulatory requirements.
- Skilled in data analysis, manufacturing processes, continuous improvement, risk assessment, technical documentation, and Design for Quality (DFQ) to support operational excellence and product quality.
Required skills
- PFMEA
- CAPA
- Root Cause Analysis
- Statistical analysis
- Process monitoring
- Data analysis
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